F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1996/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1996)

KIÁLLÍTÁS - Lővei Pál: Esterházy-kiállítás Kismartonban

Hungarian National Gallery „Aristocratic Family Portraits from the Historical Gallery" in 1988. In that catalogue the names of the masters were given by Géza Galavics- Jacob Hermundt and Jacob Hoffmann- and the place of the publication as well: they were supplements of a family historical work published by Pál Esterházy in 1700. (It is not may task to deal with the missing of a part of the Hungarian experts and their finished studies from the preparations and the catalogue of the exhibition -1 do not have enough information concerning this, perhaps others would do instead in somewhere else, but the above mentioned mistake illustrates it well, that beside the important works borrowed from Hungary wider cooperation would have increased the value of the work and the exhibition as well.) An important unit of the exhibition was the part dealing with the architectural history of the Kismarton castle in modern times. The showing of the branches and structure of the agriculture founding the fortune of the Esterházy family, prepared with a minute archival and historical research was an important part of the exhibition at stables. This as followed by the unit dealing with horticulture, presenting the most important commissions of the princes by the examples of Kismarton, Eszterháza/Fertőd, and Pottendorf in Lower Austria. The most spectacular work of this unit was the oil painting representing the garden front of the castle of Eszterháza/Fertőd, from the collection of the Architectural Hinstorical Museum of the National Board of Historical Monuments. This painting, originally decorating the castle of Fertőd, was often borrowed for great exhibitions; first for the exhibition of Maria Theresia in Vienna, in 1888, then in 1982 in Eisenstadt (Joseph Haydn exhibition), in 1994, in Szombathely (Melchior Hefele Exhibition), and last here in Kismarton, together with the drawing of the wiev of the plan of Fertőd. This latter was lent by the Hungarian National Archive, together with other plans. A catalogue of the exhibition was ready for the opening - as it is usual in Austria. Its use is slightly difficult as a result of the missing list of abbreviations and literature and that of a genealogical chart showing the family connections. There are misprints in the dates, and also some contradictory facts, and the famous Esterházygallery has not been mentioned. Nevertheless this catalogue would serve the future expert as an important source.